单词 | proliferousness |
释义 | > as lemmasproˈliferousness proˈliferousness n. rare †(a) Botany the state or fact of having many parts, as in a compound flower (obsolete); (b) productiveness, prolificness. ΚΠ 1674 J. Ray in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1757) III. 170 Proliferousness of the flower in childing daisy, scabious and other plants with a compound flower. 1897 E. Bellamy Equality xxxviii. 411 Wherever the poverty and squalor chiefly abounded..humankind multiplied like rabbits, while in proportion as the economic level of a class was raised its proliferousness declined. 1982 Contemp. Lit. 23 271 That I am so passionately committed is probably evidenced by my presumed proliferousness. < as lemmas |
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